90% of juniors and seniors worked sometime during that year studied. .
Another study done by Bachman and Schulenberg showed that out of 71,863 total high school students surveyed that:.
75% of males and 73% of females did paid work in addition to studies in school.
47% of those boys and 43% of those girls worked over twenty hours a week while attending school. .
These statistics are amazingly large and it's surprising to think of almost 75 percent of our teenage population is working while they are enrolled in school. This has made the industry start to notice all of the money that these teenagers are making and they have accordingly invented brand new markets to harvest it. The media has altered its look to appeal to teenagers as well as adults. They have also designed ads that focus on teenagers. This I think is a very beneficial for teenagers to work it teaches them work ethics and helps them decide in the long run which career they would like to pursue. It also lets teenagers learn what they are good at and what they like to do, for example working at the Twin Rocks Trading Post as a web designer and maintaining websites has let me develop my abilities with computers and exposed me to commercial design. Working there has made me realize that I would like to go to college and major in computer science and possibility of engineering. Other advantages are:.
Teenagers learn money management.
Getting along with co-workers and leadership skills.
Dealing with customers, .
Time management/optimization.
Working alongside with managers and supervisors .
Team management/leadership.
The most important benefit that teenagers get by working is learning how to manage their time. They learn to manage school, family, work, and friends, which is essential as an adult. Working teenagers get their first bit of independence while working and going to school by way of their paycheck, the money that they make is their to use for whatever they want, it lets them purchase items and services without having to ask their parents and without permission.
